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Endling by Maria Reva wins 2026 Amazon Canada First Novel Award (Knopf Canada)Endling by Maria Reva wins 2026 Amazon Canada First Novel Award (Knopf Canada)

Amazon Canada and The Walrus are pleased to announce that this year’s winner of the Amazon Canada First Novel Award is Maria Reva for Endling.

Learn more about the winning novel and the entire shortlist.

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This week on What Happened Next, host Nathan Whitlock is joined by Chantal Braganza. Her debut book is Story of Your Mother, published in 2025 by Strange Light. Chantal talks to Nathan about some of the realities of her former life as a busy freelance writer, about struggling to complete a memoir relating to things that were happening in her life while those things were still happening, and about her recent World Cup–induced obsession with soccer—which she is totally not going to write a book about. Maybe.

Beneath the noise of traffic, one Toronto space is quietly proving that conversation—not commerce—is what makes a neighborhood. Anna Gallagher-Ross is senior manager of programming at The Bentway, a public space beneath Toronto’s Gardiner Expressway that hosts year-round arts programming and social gatherings. This special episode of The Conversation Piece features content from her presentation at The Walrus Talks at Home: Place and Belonging, supported by The Belonging Forum.


Online fraud is evolving quickly, with scams becoming more convincing, personalized, and harder to recognize. This episode explores common warning signs, how scammers use urgency and emotional manipulation, and how banks detect suspicious activity. It also offers practical tips for protecting personal information, including using password managers and multi-factor authentication, and what to do if fraud is suspected.




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  • Black and white photo of poet Michael Lista on a red background. Noble Street - And pray that there is someone up above / Who wants for me not just less harm, but love by Michael Lista

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